Wait! I don't think it's an HDD issue.
Can you try to provide the /var/log/syslog file from the installation process? This will include the actual error messages. Adrian > On Mar 7, 2017, at 8:07 PM, Nicholas Dal Porto <sjobsro...@me.com> wrote: > > Alright, now I'm getting a "target installation failed" on the "Install base > system" phase. I think it's an issue with my HDD - I never tested it before I > installed it. Going to swap in a known good one in a bit. > >>> On Mar 7, 2017, at 8:20 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz >>> <glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de> wrote: >>> >>> On 03/07/2017 04:54 PM, Nicholas Dal Porto wrote: >>> 1) did you have the original Apple hard drive and if so, how did you format >>> it? >> >> I actually installed it onto an external Firewire drive. I also don't think >> at >> all that this is relevant because the firmware issues usually only existed >> on MacOS itself. One of the issues was that on MacOS versions around 7.x, >> Apple's own partitioning tool would refuse to partition a disk if it didn't >> have Apple's original firmware. You could use a patched version of the >> utility to circumvent that. >> >> The disk itself was blank. >> >>> 2) what operating system did you burn the ISO with and how >> >> I burnt the ISO on Linux. Please refrain from using tools like unetbootin >> or similar [1]. Lots of people have done that in the past and created >> broken installer images. >> >> Use a proper CD writing software and the unaltered ISO files directly >> from Debian. Writing the ISO files with the software in OSX should >> work fine as well. I used that in the past, too. >> >> Adrian >> >>> [1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=775689 >> >> -- >> .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz >> : :' : Debian Developer - glaub...@debian.org >> `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de >> `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913
